Abzug, Bella S.
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{ab'-zuhg} Bella Savitzky Abzug, b. New York
city, July 24, 1920, represented New York's 19th and 20th districts in Congress from 1971 to 1976. A lawyer long active in liberal causes, particularly the civil rights and peace movements, Abzug became nationally prominent in the early 1970s as an articulate advocate of women's rights and as a leader of the House of Representatives' antiwar group. In 1976 Abzug was unsuccessful in a bid for the U.S. Senate, and she was defeated in a 1978 attempt to reenter Congress. Prominent in several women's political organizations, she was co-chairwoman of the
president's National Advisory Committee on Women from November 1977 to January 1979. Subsequently, she returned to the private practice of law in New York
city. Abzug has written Bella! Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington (ed. by Mel Ziegler, 1972) and Gender Gap: Bella Abzug's Guide to Political Power for American Women (with Mim Kebler, 1984).
